Plan of the Temple at Srirangam, c.1800
Pen and ink with watercolour over pencil
Indian School

A ground plan of the Sri Ranganathaswamy temple in Tamil Nadu. This is one of three related architectural drawings in the Royal Collection drawn in pen-and-ink and wash by local

south Indian draughtsmen in the service of the East India Company. They were commissioned by the first Surveyor-General of India as part of the Company's project to survey Southern India under British rule.

Royal Collection Trust

Elevation of one of the Gopurams of the Temple at Srirangam Company School (Tamil Nadu), c.1800
Inks and watercolour over graphite pencil

From the Royal Collection Trust

Sri Ranganatha temple at Srirangam, Tamil Nadu. c. 1830, Thanjavur.

Inscription (in Telugu): Victory to Lord Rama. The glorious seven prakaras at Shriranganathasvami; sriranganathaswami saptapragara (translation: the seven enclosures of Sriranganathasvami)

British Musuem; description of the map:

This is an original 1955 duotone rotogravure of a Brahmin buying pencils in the street in front of a temple at Srirangam, Tiruchirapalli, India.

1938 color print of the architecture at Srirangam

"Sriringam temples view," and “Rajah-Gopuram” wood engravings by H. Clerget, from 'Le Tour du Monde', 1869

The Hall of 1000 Pillars in Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu, a photogravure by Alfred Nawrath, 1938